Improving performance of iphone.news.com.au

This document discusses improving the performance of iphone.news.com.au, which was built with Rails 2.1. It describes initial planning activities like fetching and parsing feeds, fetching images, and resizing images. It also discusses using rake tasks to ease provisioning and have short-lived processes. When serving web requests, it has no Rails session and instead uses hand-baked cookies. The home page contains 64 customizable news sections.